Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies : and particularly on the presence of the coagulable part of the blood in dropsical urine : to which is added, an appendix, containing several cases of Angina pectoris, with dissections, &c / by John Blackall.

  • Blackall, John, 1771-1860.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies : and particularly on the presence of the coagulable part of the blood in dropsical urine : to which is added, an appendix, containing several cases of Angina pectoris, with dissections, &c / by John Blackall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    am surprised not to see quoted with other examples of diseased coronaries, found the aorta and its branches co- vered internally with prominencies and pustules, which extended especially into the subclavians, carotids, and coronaries ; one of the coronaries was besides di- lated to nearly the size of the left ca- rotid ; the coats were easily separable from each other, and the prominencies contained a pulpy matter ; and yet this patient had no symptoms referrible to such a cause, but some emaciation for the last two or three years, and for the same period an occasional feeling like that of an approaching deliquium ; inter- no quodam sensu, ac si deficeret. * In others, on the contrary, there is reason to observe, that the very first rudiments of ossification are marked by consider- able sufferings. Whether it._ is, that in such instances the disease is less con- fined to the internal membrane, or that there is superadded a stricture from some constitutional cause, the action of the * Morgagni Epistolae, xxvii. Artie. 28.